As entrepreneurs, investors, and others using business to tackle social challenges gather in San Francisco for the annual Social Capital Markets conference this week, they may be adding a new word to their vocabulary.
The word is “inculators” — shorthand for both incubators and accelerators. It appears in a report released Tuesday by the Unitus Seed Fund, a seed stage venture fund that invests in Indian startups, which partnered with Village Capital and the Global Accelerator Network to survey incubators.
The 2015 Global Best Practices Report on Incubation and Acceleration draws on 78 responses from 198 leading incubators contacted since March 2015. It aims to fill a void in knowledge about what makes incubators and accelerators effective, a question Devex Impact also examined last month. While efforts like the Global Accelerator Learning Initiative are underway, these latest results come at an opportune moment to examine what works — as the SOCAP conference launches.
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Catherine Cheney is the Senior Editor for Special Coverage at Devex. She leads the editorial vision of Devex’s news events and editorial coverage of key moments on the global development calendar. Catherine joined Devex as a reporter, focusing on technology and innovation in making progress on the Sustainable Development Goals. Prior to joining Devex, Catherine earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Yale University, and worked as a web producer for POLITICO, a reporter for World Politics Review, and special projects editor at NationSwell. She has reported domestically and internationally for outlets including The Atlantic and the Washington Post. Catherine also works for the Solutions Journalism Network, a non profit organization that supports journalists and news organizations to report on responses to problems.
